'Keep rollin', rollin', rollin',
Though the streams are swollen,
Keep them dogies rollin', rawhide.
Through rain and wind and weather,
Hell bent for leather,
Wishin' my gal was by my side.
All the things I'm missin',
Good vittles, love and kissin',
Are waiting at the end of my ride'.

Nice view on a classical hay bale theme, with good colors and a crisp atmosphere. A much higher point of view, looking above the bale in the foreground, would have been great, too, if the landscape would have allowed you to reach that high.

Hi Stephen
Every year I see fields like this and size up great compositions, but never quite manage to get out there with my camera and capture them. I love the shapes that the bales make in the fields and how they are often strewn seemingly randomly about. You had perfect weather here, the fluffy white clouds giving interest to the sky, while the colour of the straw contrasts so well against the blue. I like the perspective of the "roll" in the foreground and you can imagine that it is on its way down the hill...
Nice shot.
Regards
Sarah

very nice photo Stephen,
it is a art to set the rolls into the right formation for the composition on the photo, on this point people must have painters eyes, well friend you did do it very good here, a well taken shot, good point of view and a great sky as a bonus, very good job.
gr. jaap

A good composition is the first thing one notices in this photo.
What makes a photo for me here though, is that special moment of light (seen here in the very foreground), when the sun is on the edge of a cloud and produces not so bright light, so whatever is in the FG is perfectly lit (see the soft contrast between the hay bale shadow and the rest of the ground area + front side of the bale vs. almost shiny side opposite to the sun).
A really good one, Stephen!
Robi

Beautiful and crisp photo of the hayrolls, Stephen. I like the depth that is accomplished by moving up-close to the foremost roll, and opening up the view to many more of them as the field extends towards the background. Nice lighting and color contrast, and a good use of the polarizer to that end, too.